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Vol. CLVI, CIRCUIT
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Whitman Wire

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Whitman Wire

Students Urge Faculty to Support Divestment

Corey Nave, Senior May 21, 2025

Dear faculty of Whitman College, This Friday you will be voting on a resolution to encourage the board of trustees to divest from corporations providing weapons and technology to countries engaged in...

Open Letter from Whitman Faculty: Whitman Students Engaged in Hunger Strike

Whitman Faculty May 15, 2025

  Dear Whitman community, We are not sure how many of you are aware but three of our students (one senior and two first-years) are engaged in a hunger strike to protest the college’s failure...

Organizing Against the Apocalypse

Kaitlyn Salazar, Science and Environment Editor May 14, 2025

Next time you're in a public library, art museum or university, thank a billionaire! The generous spirit of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and the like continue to be an inspiration...

Letter from the Editors

Letter from the Editors

Nazaaha Penick and Chloe Collins May 14, 2025

Dear readers, Welcome to the Apocalypse.  When we chose the theme for this year’s edition of Circuit, we weren’t just thinking about zombies (though you’ll find plenty of those). We were...

Apathy in the Apocalypse

Owen Jakel, Opinion Columnist May 14, 2025

Perhaps the most well known example of apocalypse in popular media is “The Walking Dead,” which follows a set of characters surviving during a zombie apocalypse. An intriguing storyline takes place...

You’re Still White: Intersectionality of Identity and Power

Ayat’arahman Mahmoudi, Opinion Columnist May 1, 2025

At Whitman, conversations about identity are a daily fixture — woven into classrooms, affinity groups and late-night personal debates. Whitman prides itself on its awareness and allyship. But even in...

Deletion Requests - Fascism’s Silent and Complicit Media

Deletion Requests – Fascism’s Silent and Complicit Media

Garrett Schreiber, News Editor May 1, 2025

It shouldn’t take much to express my worries about the United States of America plunging further and further down the path to fascism. Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term,...

Palestine, Labor Organizing, and the Future of Campus Activism

Owen Jakel, Opinion Columnist May 1, 2025

Nearly four semesters since Whitman’s Students for Justice in Palestine (WSJP) chapter sparked broad political engagement as a genocide unfolded in Gaza, many students are asking where we go from here....

TogaGate: When Cultural Appreciation Becomes Cultural Anxiety

TogaGate: When Cultural Appreciation Becomes Cultural Anxiety

Arham Khan, Opinion Columnist April 24, 2025

Last year, I returned from my hometown of Mardan, Pakistan, with a suitcase full of brightly colored kurtas and traditional shawls as gifts for my American college friends. Excitedly, I distributed...

AI Is Corrupting Art

Nohraine Rose Gaddi, Opinion Columnist April 24, 2025

Since the ascent of artificial intelligence, or AI, in our contemporary society, it has served numerous groundbreaking applications in our everyday lives — from education to healthcare, finance and manufacturing.  Indeed,...

Pornography Consumption Leads to Brain Erosion and Destroys Intimacy

Ayat’arrahman Mahmoudi, Opinion Editor April 24, 2025

Pornography is everywhere. From social media to streaming sites, adult content is no longer confined to the shady corners of the internet. For many people, particularly college-aged, porn has become a...

Give Students Their Space!

Give Students Their Space!

Owen Jakel, Opinion Columnist April 17, 2025

Many of us probably thought that fascism was at our doorstep after the election of Donald Trump in November of 2024, but it is much less likely that you’d expect our colleges and universities to...

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